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@Balki
Well it doesnt fall out of the cow in slices, does it?
The 30kg blocks come from the factory and are sliced by a hydraulic ram pushing them through a wire grid, first horizontally, then vertically. The configuration of the wire dictates the shape and size of the blocks packed for retail.
For proper cheese slices, a long block is fed through a device akin to a butchers slicer witha big rotating blade.
My job involved:
Repeat.
Fucking shit job. Cooking the singles was worse though. I recall a 40 degree day and the cook room was ~60 degrees. Not entirely sure that was legal... we did get icy poles though, which was good.